Wildfire on Nostr: 100%. I was on the Fediverse years back, and I remembering seeing all these things. ...
100%. I was on the Fediverse years back, and I remembering seeing all these things. Truth is that Mastadon and its substitutes were made to create a decentralized Twitter, not a censorship-resistant platform, typically by and for people who felt that Twitter was not censorious enough.
For example, servers could end up on a server-ban list solely through the actions of one person who created a big enough deal on the global timeline. This could result in you being banned from connecting to your friends' servers through no fault of your own, just being on the same server as a nasty troll who took advantage of open signups - the "bad neighbor problem". Sometimes it wasn't even that bad of a troll, just those on the receiving end couldn't handle it.
These server-ban lists were shared among admins and treated as a best-practice for spam-prevention. This led to a tale of two Fediverses, one for the free-speech servers and one for walled-gardens servers.
For example, servers could end up on a server-ban list solely through the actions of one person who created a big enough deal on the global timeline. This could result in you being banned from connecting to your friends' servers through no fault of your own, just being on the same server as a nasty troll who took advantage of open signups - the "bad neighbor problem". Sometimes it wasn't even that bad of a troll, just those on the receiving end couldn't handle it.
These server-ban lists were shared among admins and treated as a best-practice for spam-prevention. This led to a tale of two Fediverses, one for the free-speech servers and one for walled-gardens servers.